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Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay
tinear123
241 posts
 
Can anyone compare / contrast the PS to the PS-15?  Ready to order but can't seem to decide which button to click.
corelli
1,014 posts
 
Given these are newer models, suspect few have heard the 15 yet.  I would trust Eric's input on this one
david_ten
5,480 posts
 
+1 to the above from @corelli . Even less likely that folks, other than Eric of Tekton Design, have compared the 12 to the 15 directly.
big_katydid
50 posts
 
I’ve been interested in hearing tekton for some time and was hoping they would be at axpona this year. I noticed Zu (another direct sales and another I'd love to hear) was listed but the room (at least on the Friday) only had their carts? Hopefully tekton will be present next year.
nightfall
188 posts
 
teajay,

Earlier in this discussion you said:

" When Mike Kay of Audio Archon came over to get his take on the PS speaker he brought that Rush album and played it at high SPL levels, he thought that the system sounded superlative playing this music."

Was he listening to it with the higher powered Threshold amp, or the low powered SET amp? While I listen to a lot of singer/songwriter music, where voice and guitar reproduction is critical, I also want to throw on a recording by The Who, or Rush and listen at high SPL at times. Do the Perfect SETS deliver on that using SET power? 

Also, you mentioned in the excellent 6 Moons article that you put the PS speakers upstairs in your nearfield setting to review them. Can you give me an idea of how far they were from your listening position, how far apart, and how far from the side and front walls? That information would help me a great deal. 
I would be using them in a 13.5x15x8 room with a SET amp of 16wpc. 

Thank you. 
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